Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.
Omaha is a game that was invented by a sadist and is played by masochists.
I started harmonica at the age of four, and when I was 12 I started the guitar. Then I played at school.
I think I always play good, always played solid.
I'd have to say that "Mr. Crowley" in my most memorable solo. . . I had spent hours trying to figure out a solo for the song. . . Ozzy came in and said "it's crap - everything you're playing is crap". . he told me to get in there and just play how I felt. He made me really nervous, so I just played anything. When I came back to listen to it, he said it was great.
I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live. ' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.
My mother played a little bit of the old time clawhammer. She tuned the banjo up and picked one tune for me, and it just become natural to me. When she picked it, I just started and picked it, too.
[With] this show [This Is Us], I don't think I was seeking something outside of the world I'd always played in so much as I'm ruled by characters. If it's a great character, I'm invested. It doesn't matter what the genre, what the storyline, anything.
I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.
The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.
The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.
It is better to be devoured by lions than to be eaten by dogs. Explaining why his Northwestern teams played difficult schedules.
I played a practice round with Hubert [Green] the other day, and when we got to the ninth green, I heard a fan say, "Why does Hubert have two caddies?"
Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
I always played like this, unpredictable.
I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.
I did a film called The Jesuit, which was an independent film. I did that shortly after Mistresses. I was still feeling soft and I was nursing, but it was a character I'd never played before. That was a Paul Schrader script, with an up-and-coming Mexican director, named Alfonso Ulloa. That has Tim Roth and Paz Vega in it, and I enjoyed that, as well.
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?
We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional.
